India has been ranked twenty-third place in the Climate Change Performance Index 2025. This slip in ranking, from seventh place in 2023, is primarily due to its current coal dependency and ongoing coal expansion plans. However, India has substantially increased its share of renewable energy in the energy mix and is putting concerted efforts towards greening its industries and sectors such as transport. Interestingly, India was also ranked as the ninth most affected country in the world due to climate change by Global Climate Risk Index 2025. In the last couple of years, there has been an increase in climate related weather events like flash floods, incessant rains and heat waves in most parts of the country. The economic cost of damage apart, the number of lives lost due to these events runs into hundreds, mostly because of mindless development and negligence of ecological assets. There has been a strong focus on building resilience and mitigation strategies. However, there are several socio-economic challenges, complex power dynamics and societal hierarchies that determine the extent to which a community or stakeholder group can become resilient. So far, state level action leaves out a vast population of vulnerable communities, specially women. None of these strategies suggest systemic change that can transform the current exclusionary paradigm of development. There needs to be an acknowledgement of the interconnectedness between climate crisis and resultant gender inequalities. A systemic change is required, to think and work proactively from the perspective of women. This chapter presents some concepts, tools and approaches that can shape policy and discourse in a gender-transformative manner.